Exploring Evercookie: A Threat To User Privacy And Data Protection

They say that some things last forever, like diamonds or true love or Twinkies. But should browser cookies used for tracking be added to that list? Well, whether cookies should or should not last forever, a new JavaScript API is certainly making it a possibility, and also making it much harder for Web users to protect their privacy.

Evercookie was developed by developer and security hacker Samy Kamkar and it uses fairly simple and straightforward web and browser technologies to make it possible for sites, advertising networks and more nefarious people to add a tracking cookie to your browser that will last, essentially, forever.

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